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  2. Taeniasis - Wikipedia

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    This is the most frequent and severe disease caused by any tapeworm. It can lead to headaches, dizziness, seizures, dementia, hypertension, lesions in the brain, blindness, tumor-like growths, and low eosinophil levels. It is a cause of major neurological problems, such as hydrocephalus, paraplegy, meningitis, and death. [10]

  3. Echinococcosis - Wikipedia

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    Echinococcosis is a parasitic disease caused by tapeworms of the Echinococcus type. [1] The two main types of the disease are cystic echinococcosis and alveolar echinococcosis. [1] Less common forms include polycystic echinococcosis and unicystic echinococcosis. [1] The disease often starts without symptoms and this may last for years. [1]

  4. Hymenolepiasis - Wikipedia

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    Hymenolepiasis is infestation by one of two species of tapeworm: Hymenolepis nana or H. diminuta. Alternative names are dwarf tapeworm infection and rat tapeworm infection. The disease is a type of helminthiasis which is classified as a neglected tropical disease.

  5. Echinococcus granulosus - Wikipedia

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    Echinococcus granulosus, also called the hydatid worm or dog tapeworm, is a cyclophyllid cestode that dwells in the small intestine of canids as an adult, but which has important intermediate hosts such as livestock and humans, where it causes cystic echinococcosis, also known as hydatid disease. The adult tapeworm ranges in length from 3 mm to ...

  6. Cysticercosis - Wikipedia

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    The tapeworm eggs are present in the feces of a person infected with the adult worms, a condition known as taeniasis. [2] [8] Taeniasis, in the strict sense, is a different disease and is due to eating cysts in poorly cooked pork. [1] People who live with someone with pork tapeworm have a greater risk of getting cysticercosis. [8]

  7. Echinococcus multilocularis - Wikipedia

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    The resultant disease is called alveolar echinococcosis, and is caused by ingesting the eggs of E. multilocularis. The parasite is commonly maintained in a wildlife life cycle involving two mammalian hosts. Wild canids, dogs, and less commonly cats act as definitive hosts, harbouring the adult stage of the tape worm. Voles are the intermediate ...

  8. 20-foot-long tapeworm found inside Chinese man's body - AOL

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    Tapeworms are parasites that live in the bodies of their hosts including humans. A 38-year-old man from China was one such host -- recently having a 20-foot-long version of the parasite removed ...

  9. Coenurosis in humans - Wikipedia

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    The definitive hosts for these Taenia species are canids. The adult tapeworms live in the intestines of animals like dogs, foxes, and coyotes. Intermediate hosts such as rabbits, goats, sheep, horses, cattle and sometimes humans get the disease by inadvertently ingesting tapeworm eggs (gravid proglottids) that have been passed in the feces of an infected canid.

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